Ancient Writings on the Female Orgasm

          Hippocrates of Kos is perhaps the most well known physician of ancient times and one of the most influential thinker on medical ethics. The Hippocratic Oath, so vaunted by various money-grubbing medical agencies, was if not written by him, named after him by his students, shortly after his death. One of his many achievements was the Corpus, which consists of about seventy medical works and is are the most detailed collection of ancient man’s medical expertise.

          Well, buried among them was this gem.

          “During intercourse, once a woman’s genitals are vigorously rubbed and her womb titillated, an itch overwhelms her down there, and the feeling of pleasure and warmth pools out through the rest of her body. A woman also has an ejaculation, furnished by her body, occurring at the same time in the womb, which has become wet, as well as on the outside because the womb is now gaping wide open.

          “A woman feels pleasure right from the start of intercourse, through the entire time of it, right up until the moment when the man pulls out; if she feels an orgasm coming on, she ejaculates with him, and then she no longer feel pleasure. But if she feels no oncoming orgasm, her pleasure stops when his does. It’s like when one throws cold water onto boiling water, the boiling ceases immediately. The same is with the man’s sperm falling into the womb, it extinguishes the warmth and pleasure of the woman.

          “Her pleasure and warmth, though, surge the moment the sperm descends into the womb, then it fades. Just when wine is poured on a flame, it spurts before it goes out for good.”

          Makes sense to me.

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Early Bestiality Laws

    The Hittites were an ancient people (mentioned throughout the Old Testament of the Bible as “the children of Heth” or Hethites) whose empire (or allied city-states) was located in the Middle East- notably around the areas of modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. In many ways they were your typical bronze age civilization, all of which spun off from the Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations. Perhaps their only distinction was a slight difference in architecture and dress fashions.  They had a cuneiform writing style, where writing was cut into clay and then hardened. And they had their own system of law and morality, as is evidenced below.

Taken from a clay Hittite Law Tablet. The term “does evil with” means to have carnal relations with.

“If a man does evil with a head of cattle, it is a capital crime and he shall be    

          killed.

If a man does evil with a sheep, it is a capital crime and he shall be killed.

If anyone does evil with a pig, he shall die

If a man does evil with a horse or mule, there shall be no punishment.

        If an ox leaps at [attempts to take the top sexually] a man, the ox shall die, but the man shall not die. A sheep may be proffered in the man’s stead and they shall kill that.

       If a pig leaps at a man there shall be no punishment.”

    Now we have no way of knowing how often these laws were called into effect. But they must have been enough occurrences for the authorities of the day to codify it into law and literally chisel the proclamations in stone. A few colleagues have chafed at the harsh punishment (death) of the infractors, which may say more about them than they wished, but one has to remember that this was essentially frontier law and harshness was the only way for the populace to take the lawmakers seriously. If you slap on fine on a guy for molesting a pig, it would be almost seen as an endorsement of the act. A slap and a wink. You hang him, people know you mean business.

    What I find most fascinating is not what wasn’t allowed, but what was. Sure I can see how being raped by a pig or a ox would not be the man or woman's fault. And while the person is spiritually unclean, hence the need to substitute a sheep (or scapegoat) to sacrifice for forgiveness, they aren’t going to be whacked for bending over at the wrong time.

    But apparently there are certain animals where it is accepted to have romantic relations with, the horse and the mule. Well perhaps accepted is too strong a term, it is more understood that on a long journey a man must relieve his sexual urges somewhere. Or is it that a man will eventually grow to have a certain fondness for an animal to which so much of his life and livelihood depend, and then on a moonlit night, after the vino has been flowing, if something should occur… well, these things happen.

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UFO Sightings Mentioned in the Bible

          Granted I will be taking a few liberties with this one, but viewed through a certain lens various events described in the Bible could have an extraterrestrial, rather than supernatural, source. Again with both of these, you must take as a matter of faith that what is being described here actually happened and is not the result of an active imagination. 

For this article, I will be focusing exclusively on the Book of Ezekiel which takes place between 593 and 571 BCE (Before Common Era). The book records the six visions of the prophet (who is assumed to be the author), who is in exile in Babylon. This first excerpt describes an object landing near the Chebar Canal in ancient Chaldea (modern day Iraq) in the fifth year of the Jewish captivity under Nebuchadnezzar II.

“As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness round it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming bronze.”

Odd, very odd. The prophet continues.

“And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the forms of men, but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like burnished bronze. Under the wings on their four sides they had human hands… each had the face of a man in the front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side… the face of an ox on the left side, and ...the face of an eagle on the back… And their wings were spread out above; each creature had two wings, each of which touch the wing of another, while two covered their bodies. And each [creature] went straight forward without turning as they went...And the living creatures darted to and fro, like a flash of lightning.”

Even more odd. Some claim this is a description of the angelic order of Cherubs. But if you discount those creatures from existence, what else might they be describing? Some hybrid creature, created to mingle on the planet? Or natural shape-shifters. The description goes on.

“Now as I looked at the living, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: the appearance was like the gleaming of a chrysolite [a yellowish-green gemstone]... being as it were a wheel within a wheel…. The four wheel shad rims and they had spokes, and their rims were full of eyes round about. And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.”

Ezekiel by Michelangelo from the Sistine Chapel panel

Are these spectral visitors or extra-terrestrial? The creatures approach Ezekiel, declare him to be the messenger of his people and is taken on board the craft (“the Spirit lifted me up...I heard the sound of the wheels… that sounded like a great earthquake”) and he is transported to Tel-abib (which translates to Spring Mound) to proselytize to his fellow Jewish exiles.

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